Al Shabaab Attack News Today

Al-Shabaab militant group claims responsibility for the attack.

Al Shabaab claimed responsibility for the bombing.

Armed assailants dragged the victims from their houses, and tied their hands and legs behind their backs before executing them.

There is no official word on deaths and injuries of UPDF troops 72 hours later, with one senior security source vaguely saying fatalities are “under 100”

WASHINGTON: The United States conducted an airstrike that destroyed stolen Al-Shabaab weapons and equipment in...

Shabaab attacked the base in Janay Abdale, about 60 km to the west of Kismayu.

Seven soldiers were killed in an attack Friday by Al-Shabaab on a military camp in a Somali town retaken by the army this week in a major offensive against the jihadist group, the government said.

Al-Shabaab, a militant group allied with Al-Qaeda that controls swathes of countryside in Somalia, claimed responsibility for the attack via its communication channels

Eight people were killed in a roadside bombing in Central Somalia on Saturday (January 14) with the Al-Shabaab claiming responsibility for the attack. The blast occurred in Hiran district's Buloburde city. A local police commander Abdullahi Mohamud said the bomber detonated a car laden with explosives near an administrative building, a report by the news agency AFP said on Sunday. Mohamud said that five people were killed on the spot while three died overnight in a hospital.

Militants from the Al-Shabaab killed at least six people during a raid early Friday (January 6) in Hilowle Gaab, a village in central Somalia they were pushed out of recently. Somalia's army and allied militiamen had captured Hilowle Gaab from the Al-Shabaab last week, a report by news agency Reuters on Friday said.